107.3 from Middle Brother would also interfere with 2BBB Bellingen and would play havoc with the off-air feed to the 93.3 translator at Dorrigo.
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This has been a great discussion about the Taree services.
Would be great to see them shift to a proper transmission site such as Middle Brother.
I agree, the licence boundary should be shifted to meet other local licence areas.
Bulahdelah is also within the Mid Coast Council area and historically within the Great Lakes Council area.
Youâre right, Sugarloaf signals are poor in Karuah, many have switched TV antennas to Gan Gan, downstream in Port Stephens. Sugarloaf signals not at the power of the national broadcasters are noticeably weak. The drop of just a few metres from main street of Karuah to Cole Brothers oysters on the river bank highlights this.
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RE Newcastle reception within the north of the LA, I found that about 30km north of Raymond Terrace was the point where the Newcastle commercial fm stations became strong on the car radio. They were patchy from Bulahdelah to around this point. Even the 80kw nationals struggled within the same areas.
I found Newcastle Fm reception in Forster was better thanks to a costal path.
The Newcastle nationals and commercial fm stations really need to be at 150kw to the north to account for terrain.
If Taree fm came from Middle Brother with the right power would then allow great reception to the Boundary of the Newcastle / Taree LA border. This would be better then at present as you only have Middle Brother Nationals received between Forster and Bulahdelah. At least Rebel and Breeze will be on air to cover this area eventually.
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Good summary. Always good to have the long existing stations cover as much area as is sensible as in this case. Rebel and Breeze can switch on whenever as an addition.
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Only problem with having Taree Commercial FM from Middle Brother is, that site is at or out of the Northern LA Boundary. The TV & National FM LA vary significantly.
The Newcastle RA1 also doesnât butt up to the Taree RA1 LA, thereâs a gap in between, thus the allowance of Breeze & Rebel in the area.
The Southern Taree boundary is reasonably straight & heads across through roughly Coolongolook to Gloucester.
The Newcastle Northern boundary is difficult to cover & stick to, it juts up & down quite a lot, cutting across from the coast only barely covering Bulahdelah, then cutting right back down to Booral, missing out on Stroud, then it goes back up to roughly the Chichester Dam area, then back down to roughly Vacy, then back up to cover Gresford, then across to Singleton.
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Yes going by Radio Alive they have the northern boundary of the Taree LA going through Middle Brother. So if they were to use Middle Brother they would require a similar setup to Power Fm Nowra, strong null to the north and all the power going to the south.
Do you think the Newcastle commercials and National fmâs require more power to the north??
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I always thought 107.5 would be better for Max fm, in line with the Middle Brother/Kempsey spacing and not cochanneled with Bellingen and Sydney. From the existing site, Max fm is pretty ordinary to the North and to the south it already interferes with 2SER in parts of Sydney with tropo. I have received it before on the F3 near Brooklyn and on the Northern beaches.
Youâd have to get rid of SBS 107.7 at Laurieton or Camden Haven (whereever it is) now though, especially if it were to be from Middle Brother.
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Brooklyn - tropo
Northern Beaches - fortuitous LOS due to low signal of 2SER.
The move should be on to move Taree RA1 commercial services to Middle Brother before 2RE is considered for conversion.
When the 10kW BE is back in service, does it run at 10kW?
Coverage used to extend south to Caboolture and north to Maryborough, but lucky to get to Tiaro (somewhere there @Brianc68?) and thank goodness for FM 100.5 from Doonan for coverage south.
I felt its coverage was better than 4SS in the 90âs for covering a large distance but its shrunk. Why?
Nope only at 5kw as per what it is licensed for 
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Yes it sounds so weak now and barely receivable past Tiaro. Back in the 80s 4GY was a local strength station in Maryborough during the day. In fact even north to Howard/Torbanlea. One of the on air promos on 4GY even started âFrom Torbanlea to âŚâ The other town was a town starting with T way to the south of Gympie, illustrating the range. The main on air ID was âWide Bay, Cooloola and Sunshine Coastâ. This would have been early to mid 80s
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FM 104.7 in Grafton has revealed a new logo. They have just posted it on their Facebook page.
The old logo had to go but yeah, that new one isnât great IMO.
I personally think FM 1047 shouldâve just adopted a tweaked version of Max 1073âs fairly recently launched logo.
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Nice logo, though I think the M looks a bit too much like a W.
And PLEASE put the decimal point in the frequency!! Leaving that out is one of pet peeves.
I prefer how each SRN station has its own look and feel with the logos. A refreshing change from the corporatised SCA logos.
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Alan Jones is about to appear on Talkinâ Sport as a guest.
They could call it Talkinâ More Shit.
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Sadly so. Despite a great signal from Elanora across the Gold Coast and beyond.
For a one man band, Scott Mayman broadcasts a great breakfast show. Useful local information that you donât hear elsewhere.
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Scott Mayman is under-utilised.
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he was quite busy reporting for Super Radio Network News when i was there
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